The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England

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Seite x In the universities, all things are found opposite to the advancement of the
sciences ; for the readings and exercises are here so managed that it cannot
easily come into any one's mind to think of things out of the common road: or if,
here and ...

Seite xx ... common laws, either being well left or friended, or at their own free election, or
forsaking likely success in other studies of more delight, and no less preferment,
or setting hand thereunto early, without waste of years ; upon such survey made,
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Seite xxi ... from the common disguising. Your ladyship is wise, and of good nature to
discern from what mind every action proceedeth, and to esteem of it accordingly.
This is all the message which my letter hath at this time to deliver, unless it please
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Seite xxii Being returned from travel, he applied himself to the study of the common-law,
which he took upon him to be his profession. Notwithstanding that he professed
the law for his livelihood and subsistence, yet his heart and affection was more ...

Seite xxx ... (a) and he calculated rightly upon the Lord Keeper's disposition towards him,
for, either hurt by Bacon's manner, of which he appeared to have complained, (b)
or from the usual antipathy of common minds to intellectual superiority, the Lord ...

Seite cdlvii - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Seite cdlxxvii - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...

Seite cdlix - Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores [splitters of hairs]. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove...

Seite xxix - ... more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.

Seite vii - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who — having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle their dictator,) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of Nature or time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs...

Seite ccxlv - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last : and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

Seite ccxxxvi - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand, and to rest himself ; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...